Barbara Jones is an executive editor at Henry Holt & Company, where she acquires and edits fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction. She was previously the editorial director at Hyperion Books, and previous to that, a longtime magazine editor, at Harper’s Magazine, Vogue, Real Simple, and elsewhere.

Susan Choi is the author of four novels: The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education. She lives in Brooklyn.

Lauren Francis-Sharma, is the author of 'Til the Well Runs Dry, her first novel, short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize and awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the ALA. She is the owner of DC Writers Room, a MacDowell Fellow, and she is working on her second novel.

Karen Karbo is the author of fifteen award-winning novels and works of nonfiction. Her novels have all been named NY Times Notable Books. She is an NEA Fellow in Fiction and winner of an Oregon Book Award for her memoir, The Stuff of Life. Her most recent book is In Praise of Difficult Women.

Cade Leebron is a writer living in Columbus, Ohio. She holds an MFA from Ohio State. Her work has appeared in Brevity, American Literary Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere.